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Farmers Welcome Practical Innovations
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THERE is a tendency, real or assumed, to regard the farmer as old-fashioned and ultra conservative in his reaction to any suggested means for improving the efficiency of any of his operations. The attitude of the farming community is, in actual fact, the reverse of this. The best engineering brains of this country have always been devoted to the subject of the invention of methods and devices to help agriculture. It goes without saying that this would not be so if the farmer failed to encourage such enterprise. The most important engineering centres in this country, if marine engineering be excepted, are located in agricultural districts, and they owe their beginnings to the desire of farmers to take advantage of whatever, help science and engineering can give them in the preservation of the arts of husbandry.
The very exhibition which this issue of The Commercial Motor forecasts, that of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, itself exemplifies this attitude of the farmer. It is the ninety-fourth of its kind, and a very large proportion of it; comprising no fewer than 355 separate stands and covering an area which extends for nearly a third of a mile from end to end, is entirely devoted to displays of implements and Machinery. Evexy year—and 1935 is no exception to that rule—a number of entirely new implements is entered for approval by the Society. This year there are six.
Amongst the general body of implements on view, also included in the new-implement section, road-transport machinery takes an important place. The farmer's enterprise in matters of this description is, to a large extent, governed by his prosperity. When he has money to invest is the time to direct his attention to implements and machinery which will be of assistance to him. The present appears to be at least the beginning of a period when that attitude may be taken and the farmer's attention drawn to the value of road transport as a means for improving his prospects of success.